And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Called that from the 1930's when some front doors opened that way. There was a lot of body flex, and latches were not robust. If a door came open as the car was moving the instinct is to grab it. At anything over 20 or 30 MPH it would pull a passenger right out of the car - no seatbelts remember.
I was a junior in high school at New Mexico Military Institute when JFK was assassinated. If you will recall, Texas Gov. John Connley was in the front seat of the limo and caught a round in his arm (and leg?). Gov. Connley's son was also a cadet at NMMI. When the announcement came, several undercover cops whisked the son back to Texas. We spent the next two or three days, glued to the one and only television that was set up in the school's auditorium.
a fluke of school district boundaries placed me in a Fairfax County HS located in a neighborhood populated by senior govies, military and business types. Somebody got the word, because shortly after the assassination was announced, a good number of parents collected their kids most ricky-tick. A crazy 48-96 hours followed.
The idea is that standing behind the door offered some kind of protection against oncoming traffic, which it really doesn't. Door opening backwards exposes passenger completely to oncoming traffic.
I had a friend in my youth that had one of these monsters. We helped him do some bodywork and it took two of us, with occasional help from a third, to get one of those doors off and back on.
robust frame
ReplyDeleteSuicide Door...???...well it was for JFK........
ReplyDeleteCalled that from the 1930's when some front doors opened that way. There was a lot of body flex, and latches were not robust. If a door came open as the car was moving the instinct is to grab it. At anything over 20 or 30 MPH it would pull a passenger right out of the car - no seatbelts remember.
DeleteFor some reasons that pic takes me right back to 11-22-63. The day the Deep State won.
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Sad but true.
DeleteI was a junior in high school at New Mexico Military Institute when JFK was assassinated. If you will recall, Texas Gov. John Connley was in the front seat of the limo and caught a round in his arm (and leg?). Gov. Connley's son was also a cadet at NMMI. When the announcement came, several undercover cops whisked the son back to Texas. We spent the next two or three days, glued to the one and only television that was set up in the school's auditorium.
Deletea fluke of school district boundaries placed me in a Fairfax County HS located in a neighborhood populated by senior govies, military and business types. Somebody got the word, because shortly after the assassination was announced, a good number of parents collected their kids most ricky-tick. A crazy 48-96 hours followed.
DeleteWhy is it called a "Suicide Door"?
ReplyDeleteThe idea is that standing behind the door offered some kind of protection against oncoming traffic, which it really doesn't. Door opening backwards exposes passenger completely to oncoming traffic.
DeleteGorgeous car. Styling by Elwood Engel. Unibody construction, beautiful inside and out.
ReplyDeleteWhere's Lisa, Oliver & Eb? Mr Haney?
ReplyDeleteI had a friend in my youth that had one of these monsters. We helped him do some bodywork and it took two of us, with occasional help from a third, to get one of those doors off and back on.
ReplyDeleteExtremely heavy.